Mick (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bumperman) wrote,@ 2004-03-03 19:58:00 |
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Is it me?
This little syntactic quirk always gives me pause, but I never really thought about it until this morning because everyone I talked to did it. This is the formulation: $personal_possessive_article $software_product. So people refer to "my Outlook" or "my Internet Explorer" or "my sed". Okay, it's never sed(1). I don't know if that's telling or not.
My friends never use this formula unless, perhaps, they do feel some responsibility for the project. Even in that case I don't think I've heard it from (what I adjudge to be) the cognoscenti. I don't think these people who use this construction would apply it to other mass produced copies of something: "my 'Dark Side of the Moon'". "myThe Catcher in the Rye ".
Oh well.
This little syntactic quirk always gives me pause, but I never really thought about it until this morning because everyone I talked to did it. This is the formulation: $personal_possessive_article $software_product. So people refer to "my Outlook" or "my Internet Explorer" or "my sed". Okay, it's never sed(1). I don't know if that's telling or not.
My friends never use this formula unless, perhaps, they do feel some responsibility for the project. Even in that case I don't think I've heard it from (what I adjudge to be) the cognoscenti. I don't think these people who use this construction would apply it to other mass produced copies of something: "my 'Dark Side of the Moon'". "my
Oh well.
